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Ursula Trüper is a Berlin-based historian who explores the life of Zara Schmelen, African mission assistant in the Cape Colony and southern Namibia in the early 19th century, in her […]

Sonia Abun-Nasr, a historian on West Africa, was a librarian at the BAB for many years before becoming the Head of the Vadiana Library in St. Gallen (Switzerland). Her book […]

The South African historian Christopher Saunders (University of Cape Town) supports Namibian studies since the early 1980s and engages with the BAB since many years, having given lectures at the […]